Trump created by the politically correct left

When I say “the left,” I do not mean the Democratic Party—or, solely the Democratic Party. Rather, the pestilence that is the Trump campaign is the result of a conglomeration of political, academic, media, and cultural elites who for decades have tried to act as the arbiters of acceptable public debate and shut down any political expression from Americans with whom they disagree. They, more than anyone else, created Donald Trump’s candidacy and the increasingly hideous movement he now leads.

The author is no Trump fan:

It’s pointless to try to explain Trump in terms of political platforms because Trump himself is too stupid and too incoherent to have any kind of consistent political views about anything beyond hating minorities and immigrants. Nuclear weapons? “With nuclear, the power, the devastation is very important to me.” Drugs? “That whole heroin thing, I tell you what, we gotta get that whole thing under control.” A random word generation program could do better.

They like how he says it, not what he says.

Today, however, we have a new, more virulent political correctness that terrorizes both liberals and conservatives, old-line Democrats and Republicans, alike. This form of political correctness is distinctly illiberal; indeed, it is not liberalism at all but Maoism circa the Cultural Revolution.

The extremist adherents of this new political correctness have essentially taken a flamethrower to the public space and annihilated its center. Topics in American life that once were the legitimate subjects of debate between liberals and conservative are now off-limits and lead to immediate attack by the cultural establishment if raised at all. Any incorrect position, any expression of the constitutional right to a different opinion, or even just a slip of the tongue can lead to public ostracism and the loss of a job.

It starts on campuses and spreads from there.

Note, for example, how Trump turned the incident in which Black Lives Matter activists humiliated Sen. Bernie Sanders to his own advantage. He didn’t bother drawing partisan lines or going after Sanders. Trump and his supporters couldn’t care less about any of that, and Trump until that point almost had almost never mentioned Sanders.

Instead, he made it clear that he’d never allow himself to be shut down by a mob. That, for his loyalists, was the money shot, especially when Trump pretty much dared BLM to disrupt a Trump event, in effect inviting them for an ass-kicking. A lot of people loved that shtick, because they want to see someone—literally, anyone—stand up to groups like BLM, even if it’s in defense of poor Bernie, because they worry that they’re next for that kind of treatment.

Trump loves it when people try to disrupt his events.

For the record, I despise Donald Trump and I will vote for almost any Republican (well, OK, not Ben Carson) rather than Trump. I’m a conservative independent and a former Republican. I quit the party in 2012 because of exactly the kind of coarse ignorance that Trump represents. The night Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary on the thoughtful platform of colonizing the moon, I was out. If in the end God turns his back on America and we’re left with only the choice of Trump or Hillary Clinton, I will vote for a third candidate out of protest—even if it means accepting what I consider the ghastly prospect of a Clinton 45 administration.

I know a lot of Republican voters like this.

Trump’s staying power, however, is rooted in the fact that his supporters are not fighting for any particular political outcome, they are fighting back against a culture they think is trying to smother them into cowed silence. What they want, more than any one policy, is someone to turn to the chanting mobs and say, without hesitation: “No, I will not shut up.” How long this will go on, then, depends on how long it will take for those people to feel reassured that someone besides Trump will represent their concerns without backing down in the face of catcalls about racism, sexism, LGBTQ-phobia, Islamophobia, or any other number of labels deployed mostly to extinguish their dissent.

Trump will not win, but he is changing the landscape for those who will follow.

Don’t really care.
Both are listed as official candidates for the 2016 presidential race .
I dont really support either the democrat’s or the Republicans as I view Americas political system as fucked in the helmet.

Nostalgia-NZ

One thing looks sure, he’s not going to make a comment that will lose him support. He’s already dropped clangers and there has been no drop in his support, he has a captive audience that just want to hear what he says because they agree with him generally – clangers won’t count with those already backing him. It’s a type of surreal, Trump strikes the note, however bizarre it might appear to some, yet it’s lapped up. I wouldn’t say that was because of the politically correct left, but most certainly political correctness. He’s calling a spade a spade at the same time as shocking some with his point of view.

2 things have given a small clue, he doesn’t from what I’ve seen get angry. If he gets struck a point, he’s already at the next – with a smile that says forget that, look what I have. He took pretty intense accusations from Jeb Bush in their debate about seeking help to open a casino, giving back what he got – or at least enough to see that his support is overall. After that debate he congratulated Bush convincingly in way that showed they could work together, or that Trump, can and does work with others – he is a clinical engineer of politics.

Trump can go up a gear in the future, he can also change. No one knows his format, it’s probably views it as fluid. He looks like he can, when the pressure is in intense in the Presidential race, if he gets there, be capable of dragging a wider audience. By then his support base would have sobered some what, considering being in the home straight. In such a time Trump looks to have the capacity to let the air out of the balloon on some ideas, while explaining others in wider detail that rests easy with a larger audience. if it gets there it will be interesting to see how he gets back on side with some of the important vote he may have alienated. He’s a showman with suit cases of stuff to sell in a 100 different ways.

cha

‘I’m Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. I urge you to vote for Donald Trump because he is the one candidate who points out that we should accept immigrants who are good for America. We don’t need Muslims. We need smart, well-educated white people who will assimilate to our culture. Vote Trump.’

igm

Anyone who defies and detests Islam is good for a country’s future. Pity there were not more Trumps, we need to welcome anyone with the balls to tell murderers and rapists to eff off. Even Putin looks a better proposition than many Western leaders.

edward_l

Just back from the US. Trump challenged the four networks to ‘turn the cameras around’ at a rally. Only one did. What you saw was a vast sea of people at every rally. So, although polls suggest Clinton will beat Trump, I am no longer sure that the polls are picking up everyone. My small cross section of discussion involved flight attendants, taxi drivers and service workers. Literally all who expressed an opinion were voting for Trump. Their thesis was that America would better off without large deficits, huge bureaucracy. A curious trend was for blacks annoyed with 11 million illegal immigrants not paying taxes also voting for Trump.

deadrightkev

waripori

You can call Trump all sorts of things ( Benito Trumpolini is my favourite ) but you cant call him stupid. He has a better grasp of marketing and the media than any other politician in the races with the possible exception of Bill Clinton. Apparently the Republican Iowa caucuses are normally decided by evangelicals and Cruz has better right wing Christian chops than Trump who seems to be the only US politician who does not have a direct line to God. If Trump does OK in Iowa and wins New Hampshire he will very likely be the nominee. So far he has dominated the race with his gift for free publicity. He still has all his money to spend.

He is the Republicans worst nightmare though as he wont beat Clinton and might cost them both houses.

stephieboy

edward_l, we can’t deny ” a vast sea of people “are flocking to Trump’s rallies . Most demagogues do . People find in complex and troubled times a deep yearning for simple answers like carpet bomb or Nuke ISIS .,reject TPPA etc

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”

Other_Andy

“Trump created by the politically correct left”

And the ‘mealy mouth’, ‘on the fence’, ‘faux liberal’ establishment backing media like Kiwiblog.
Went to Europe this year and I can tell you that the majority over there has had enough of the establishment media and politicians.
While our own politicians are treating us like idiots (Not always incorrect reading some of the reactions above) and contempt, giving us a say in a new flag (Who asked for that?) but not in matters we would like to have a say in (TPP, ‘gay marriage’, immigration) Kiwiblog is debating Trump?
“Panem et circenses” for the plebs.

Bob R

Trump is doing the radical thing of actually representing the interests of the majority of voters. Something that most European leaders have long abandoned. Angela Merkel and the Cologne s8xual assaults being a prime example.

edward_l

LisaGinNZ

As an American woman working, living in NZ, I fully support Trump 100%.

NZ does not understand America if they only read, watch standard leftist American “media” outlets (Eg CNN, MSNBC, ABC, FOX, yadda yadda)… This election is Mr. Trump VERSUS both Left (Dems) and “Right” (supposedly Reps) in Washington AND THEIR MEDIA MINIONS …

Please educate yourselves. This site (is pro of course and) has great info on Trump: theconservativetreehouse.com

Glad to see there are a commenters here with common sense on this blog who DO get it… the blog author? Not so much…